April 17, 2004

BloggerCon: Blacklist Abuse

By Tara

Something just occured to me in Andrew Grumet's session on Infrastructure: What if someone used MT-blacklist in order to blacklist non-spammers?

For example, if I don't like Andrew's comment on my blog, I could use MT-blacklist to add him to my site blacklist, effectively excluding him from ever posting again. But that's not the real damage.

MT-Blacklist maintains a server where you can upload the latest spammers data for all of the MT community to use. I could make it impossible for Andrew to post comments on any MT-blacklist enabled blog.

Could you effectively shut someone out of an entire section of the blogging community? What happens if I get on that list? How do I get off that list?

By Tara @ 11:29 AM

Comments

Hi Tara,

Just came to your site from Andrew Grumet's. Your site's very interesting indeed.
Thanks for the tips you gave at lunch.

-atul

Posted by Atul at 3:27 PM on April 17, 2004

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